Lucknow: Panic grips as more than 400 admitted in hospitals due to viral diseases
5 September
The viral illnesses are wreaking havoc in the season of weather change in Lucknow. More than 400 viral patients, including 40 children, are admitted in various government hospitals of Uttar Pradesh's capital city. In OPD, 20 per cent of the patients have come complaining of fever, cold and congestion.Although, the doctors say, these are seasonal flu, there is a situation of panic in the hospitals due to the sudden increase of patients with viral fever.There are instructions in the hospitals to not take patients in the OPD section without conducting a Covid antigen test. As per the hospitals, the number of viral patients has increased by about 15 percent in the last week. In the third week of August, the number of fever victims was about 5 per cent.